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Speaker 1: What is going on everybody? John middlecoff Three and Out

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Speaker 1: podcast back at it again. Uh, just finished watching the

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Speaker 1: Monday night football game. Let's be honest, the game kind

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Speaker 1: of sucked. Uh not much that as my guy Vic Tafer,

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Speaker 1: who covers the Raiders fall m on Twitter. He's a

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Speaker 1: good follow He just tweeted and I think he's dead

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Speaker 1: on I think it's official. We can proclaim Danny Dimes

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Speaker 1: and nickname is dead. You know, at one point in time,

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Speaker 1: how does the guy have so many fumbles? I think

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Speaker 1: he has seven fumbles. He's been playing for like six games.

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Speaker 1: How is that even possible? He's a turnover machine? Uh,

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Speaker 1: arrogant gettleman, It's coming back to Earth a little bit

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Speaker 1: at least a Quants fun and Uh that's about all

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Speaker 1: I got on the Giants. We'll dive into the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: here in a second. Uh the a f C. North.

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Speaker 1: I got some thoughts just on the Steelers, the obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens got a big win on Sunday Night, and

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Speaker 1: the debacle that the Browns are the Eagles and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs find ways to win even when a bunch of

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Speaker 1: weird stuff is happening. The Jets on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: are just basically full of chaos. I gotta give John

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Speaker 1: Gruden some credit. You know, I'm there during the hard

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Speaker 1: times and the bad times. I gotta come in when

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Speaker 1: the good times come, and we'll kind of go with

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Speaker 1: the good and the bad with Gruden. Teams four and

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Speaker 1: four and they might have played the most entertaining game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Lions Staffords having a good season.

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Speaker 1: To the Raiders defense is very good. But Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: is having one of the best seasons of his career.

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Speaker 1: And uh, should the Jaguars just move to London? Because

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Speaker 1: That's what I would do, And I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: And then just some different things I wrote down during

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Speaker 1: the day on Sunday. I guess when you watch football

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Speaker 1: And I got some takes I appreciate. I got a

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Speaker 1: lot of positive feedback on the Carson Palmer interview. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't listened to a kind of an evergreen interview,

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Speaker 1: did it on Friday? Seems like a lot of you

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Speaker 1: liked it. Listen. I mean, it was cool, it was

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Speaker 1: awesome for him just to come on, he couldn't be

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Speaker 1: any cooler. He's uh, he's the man. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: no way, there's no way around it. I I I

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Speaker 1: don't know him that well. And he couldn't have been

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Speaker 1: any more candid about his career the position. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: cool in depth interview for a guy that played fifteen

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick that there was so much stuff

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Speaker 1: didn't even talk about being the number one overall pick.

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Speaker 1: And what's that feeling like? I mean, we got guys

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Speaker 1: him on, you know again later in maybe during draft

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Speaker 1: or playoffs or something off the figure out of time,

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Speaker 1: because he was he was pretty cool. But the Monday

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Speaker 1: Night game and then obviously the Middlecoff mail Bag at

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff and every podcast by answering you guys questions

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Speaker 1: slide up into my d MS, my Instagram, same with

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Speaker 1: my Twitter handle. But my Instagram d ms are open,

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Speaker 1: I answer your questions. I guess my big takeaway from

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys talent wise, top to bottom, they are really talented,

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Speaker 1: Like they have a top five or six roster in

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Speaker 1: the league. There was a moment tonight where Shawn Lee

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Speaker 1: Shawn Lee is a backup linebacker for you, you're in

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Speaker 1: a good spot. Amari Cooper, you know what's crazy about

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Speaker 1: better season than Khalil Mack. Amari Cooper is on pace

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Speaker 1: for like eighty five catches and ten touchdowns. He's dominating

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Speaker 1: since he's been on the Cowboys sixteen games. I think

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Speaker 1: someone I saw someone tweet out his numbers in the

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Speaker 1: sixteen games. It was like sixteen catches, nine touchdowns, and yards.

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Speaker 1: He's been a dominant, dominant Cowboy. Zeke is just the

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Speaker 1: ultimate blue collar workhorse. We're just gonna pound your ass

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Speaker 1: with running back and they're off. I mean, Jason went

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Speaker 1: Because there was a stat they had on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: But they have thirty percent of their salary cap right

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Speaker 1: now and visted in their offensive line, and they have

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Speaker 1: But when you give and let and I like Dak.

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Speaker 1: Wentz more like an NBA player. He can just carry

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Speaker 1: my franchise. Jared Goff cannot carry my franchise. Dad can

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Speaker 1: Jerry thinks he's gonna win the Super Bowl this year,

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Speaker 1: Google or YouTube Brett Farve, like mid nineties when he

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Speaker 1: went back to back to back m v P s.

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Speaker 1: Who Marty morning Wig told me once in the Eagles

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Speaker 1: offices he'd been in the league at that time for

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Speaker 1: like twenty plus years. I think he has thirty years

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Speaker 1: NFL experience, the best player in the height of his

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Speaker 1: powers he'd ever seen. Like you ain't that Baker, You're

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees who. The reason Drew Breese is gonna be

434
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Speaker 1: a first bound Hall of Famer is not because of

435
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Speaker 1: physical gifts. It's not because of athleticism. It's sure as

436
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 1: hell is not because of size. It's because he's gonna

437
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Speaker 1: go down as the most accurate pocket quarterback in the

438
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Speaker 1: history of the league. And Baker Mayfield every time I

439
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Speaker 1: look at him, I haven't even watched the bronco uh

440
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 1: Brown's game. Yet I'm gonna do that later today or tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But that's besides the point. So why I'm not even

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Speaker 1: using that game as an example. I've seen so many

443
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Speaker 1: times him attempt to make these plays outside of the pocket,

444
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,679
Speaker 1: like Bro, that's like Shaquille O'Neil shooting threes. That is

445
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: not who you are. That is guaranteed failure for you

446
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,199
Speaker 1: and the organization. Jimmy Haslum flying jay uh, the just

447
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,479
Speaker 1: red flags all over the place, and the Steelers and

448
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: the Ravens gotta be like, yeah, they they ain't never

449
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: catching us. Because you had your chance to hire a

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Speaker 1: coach and I love this, Well, why aren't you getting

451
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Speaker 1: on Baker? He's the one that wanted Freddie. I wouldn't

452
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Speaker 1: have listened of Baker's opinion on who the next head

453
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Speaker 1: coach should be if I was Dorsey or Jimmy Haslum

454
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Speaker 1: at all. What It's one thing if it's Rogers and

455
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: asking him, hey, what do you think of Matt Laflour,

456
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Speaker 1: It's another thing. Baker Mayfield, who had thirteen starts under

457
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Speaker 1: his belt, and who's gonna play for whoever you hires

458
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: the coach hire the best coach. Look at what the

459
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: Steelers did. They hired Mike freaking Tomlin, and through the

460
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: best decade and a half or however long he's been there,

461
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: they stood by. You know why, because Mike Tomlin's a

462
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: pretty damn good coach. Does he have some flaws? Sure,

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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, who again I've been critical over the years

464
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Speaker 1: and had some quote unquote low years. You know, over

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Speaker 1: the last three or four years. On John Harbaugh's worst day,

466
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Speaker 1: he is better than Freddie Kitch's best day. And he

467
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: doesn't call the offense and he doesn't even call the defense.

468
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Speaker 1: So there's a culture in a muscle flex that we

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Speaker 1: have seen, Like it doesn't get any better than this,

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Speaker 1: Like it is a case study in high level organizations

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Speaker 1: and low level organizations and everything that's going on. Because

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Speaker 1: if they had a high level coach, you know what

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00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: they'd say, Baker, stop leaving the pocket, Odell put on

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Speaker 1: the normal shoes. You know what the Steelers do. Trade

475
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: on one and guys like me, you guys are idiots.

476
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: Four games later, Mick has got four picks there, four

477
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Speaker 1: and four. You're like, damn is this team? Could this

478
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Speaker 1: team make a wild card? The Ravens are gonna win

479
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Speaker 1: the division with ease, and I thought I wouldn't take

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. You know what they did. They built the

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Speaker 1: whole offense around Lamar Jackson. You get Baker Mayfield, who's

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Speaker 1: a pocket quarterback, and they're trading away offensive lineman. It

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Speaker 1: really is not shocking when you just kind of talk

484
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: it out and this such cliche and you hear the

485
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Speaker 1: word all the time, like we talked about culture, culture, culture,

486
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: but it's true, and it's not just culture, it's a mindset.

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00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: It's a philosophical belief. For years the Browns tank and

488
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: so many elites in the media we're like, oh, sah,

489
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Speaker 1: she's a genius. Well you passed on to Shaun Watson.

490
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Speaker 1: But Baker Mayfield and the way they built this team,

491
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 1: like he's gonna need offensive lineman, not Odell Beckham's he

492
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Speaker 1: can make in theory good just solid wide receivers look

493
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: good like Drew Brees. Why because he's accurate, Well, he

494
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: can't be accurate if he's running for his life and

495
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: the Browns are just a bunch of hollow you know,

496
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: hype that that's what it turns out to be. Where

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00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Steelers are substance. Okay, let's get

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Speaker 1: into uh A couple of other teams and a little

499
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Speaker 1: like the Ravens actually haven't really had adversity this year.

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Speaker 1: But the Steelers have two other teams that you've just

501
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: seen weird, weird things happen, and they haven't flinched. They

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Speaker 1: haven't let chaos impact them in the least. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: another team in the Jet j just Jets. They have

504
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Speaker 1: had chaos and have just disintegrated. I mean they have

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Speaker 1: become and they are currently the worst team right now

506
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That them are the Bengals. I don't

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Speaker 1: even consider the Bengals. I would say the Jets minus

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, who are just in their own tier of

509
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: guiness right now? Are they just lost to the Dolphins?

510
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Speaker 1: And I think it's just an indictment. And this works

511
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: in football, but it works in anything in life. It's

512
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Speaker 1: why people are successful and why people aren't. When you

513
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: get handed, it's it's easy to win a hand. When

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00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: you get two aces, it's it's easy to you know,

515
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: make some money. If I give you ten million dollars

516
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Speaker 1: and you can invest it however you want, well can

517
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Speaker 1: and that let's say that person makes fifty million dollars, Well,

518
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Speaker 1: can you make fifty million dollars from scratch a business?

519
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: Can you just start a business from scratch? Like? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what Tim Cook has done with Apple has been awesome.

521
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: I've invested in it. It's impressive. Since he's taken over,

522
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Speaker 1: he's maybe some cash, but let's call it what it is.

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Speaker 1: Apple was kind of running. I owned iPad and an

524
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Speaker 1: iPod before Jobs, you know, died, So what you do,

525
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: like Job started that bad boy and got that thing rolling,

526
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Speaker 1: Like that's more impressive than what Tim Cook did. Now,

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Speaker 1: what Tim Cook's doing is impressive. And I love Apple.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at an Apple computer and iPad playing the

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Speaker 1: Bronco Cleveland game and my cell phone sitting right next

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Speaker 1: to me. But the Eagles and the Chiefs who like Apple,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're highly hyped coming into this season. The

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Speaker 1: Eagles had won a playoff game and the Chiefs had

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Speaker 1: been really an offside from d Ford away from winning

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Speaker 1: the a f C Championship. When you take a step back,

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00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: you're like, well, if they beat the Patriots, how would

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00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: they not beat the Rams? So that they were they've

537
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: probably kicking themselves over last year, and both these two

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00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: teams have been were not dealt two aces this year,

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Speaker 1: starting with the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes who messed up his ankle,

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00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: who this new defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnola has just kind

541
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: of been hit or miss early on, and then Mahomes

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00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: just located his knee. They took Matt Moore, who there

543
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: are pictures of him last year scouting or i mean

544
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: this offseason scouting for the Dolphins, like his career was over.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles, who it was reported on last week that

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00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: they've clearly had anonymous people leaking stuff about potentially Carson

547
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: Wentz and then Howard Eskin said it was Aushan Jeffrey

548
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: and then au Sean Jeffrey denied it, and it was

549
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: just they've had Malik Jackson, a big free agent signing,

550
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: gets injured, Deshan Jackson, who's on real Week one, ters

551
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: his abnumen and has basically missed the entire year. They've

552
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: just had injuries left and right, and just weird things

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00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: going on. And both those teams yesterday get two big wins,

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00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: and right now the Eagles despite having a bunch of

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00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: weird ship happening or four and five somehow the the

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the Chiefs, which listen, you'd have to

557
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Speaker 1: go down and look at one of the craziest two

558
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: week stretches of his career. But to win a game,

559
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: and really they could have beat the Packers. To play

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Speaker 1: that well in back to back weeks with Matt freaking

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Speaker 1: more against the Packers and the Vikings, who had been

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Speaker 1: two of the better teams in the NFL, has been

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00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: a clinic by Andy and his protege Doug of just

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00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: keeping the ship straight and just not letting all. Now,

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00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: it's probably crazier and philly with the media and the

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Speaker 1: intensity of these leaks, but Dougs done an incredible job.

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Speaker 1: It's a little different Kansas City though I actually interned

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00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: there my senior year in college. You know, seven herm

569
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: was there. It's the Chiefs are a big deal there.

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00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: And to win that game yesterday and I watched it

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Speaker 1: this morning with Matt Moore, it was really really impressive.

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00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: Their defense was awesome, but Matt Moore made some big

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Speaker 1: time throws. Tyreek Hills just an elite player. Sammy Watkins

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Speaker 1: played well, but that's as impressive when things are not

575
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: going your way, can you succeed. You know, it's easy

576
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: to start on third base and be successful. You know,

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00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: this season for both these two teams are just some

578
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: weird things happening, probably more weird stuff with the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: but they're still alive. I mean, they've were added off

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Speaker 1: two pretty big wins back to back weeks. And the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs I thought they were a lock probably to lose

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00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: these two games with the Packers and the Vikings, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't just I mean, they split them, but they

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00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: split them by really feeling like, you know, I know

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00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: you can't win and be one and a half and half,

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00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: but it feels like that Packer game wasn't just a nail.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they got a backup quarterback in Matt More,

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00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: and they're feeling pretty good about themselves. Meanwhile, the Jets,

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00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: who I've supported Adam Gaze. I always thought he was

590
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: a good coach. Hell, he won a little with Matt Moore.

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00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: Remember when Tanny Hill got hurt. He made the playoffs.

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00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: It's clearly just a weirdo like Matt. Excuse me, not Matt,

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00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: but Adam. How do you hate every single player? It's

594
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: always someone else's fault. There's always an excuse and then

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00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: you get Joe Douglas, who I've heard really really good

596
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: things about, and he gets in this position and there's

597
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: always a story of well, collecchi and you are going

598
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: at it, well, you're trying to trade all these players

599
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: that you told him their face, you're not trying to trade.

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Speaker 1: This stuff does not happen in New England. It does

601
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: not happen in Kansas City. Hell, it doesn't even happen

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00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: in Philly. So I'm starting to think like it's not

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00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: all on the players the debacle over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. And I've defended the Jets in the sense

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00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: like yo, Jamal, like come on, man, that the you're

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00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: gonna be talked You're gonna be talked about in talks.

607
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: But it's pretty clear the information that has come out

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00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: over the last five or six days is they were

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00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: calling about Jamal Adams. So if you're gonna look him

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: in the face and tell him you're not gonna trade him,

611
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: and then you call the Cowboys and you say yeah,

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00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: you can have him for a first and two two's

613
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: like this is this is the big leagues, Joe, this

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00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: is the New York Jets. You're not working under the

615
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: radar anymore. You're not just you know, a glorified personnel director.

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Speaker 1: You're the general manager. And I think he's a really

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00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: high level guy, and everyone that I know that worked

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00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: with him Philly really likes him. But this is chaos

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Speaker 1: right now. It's a debacle. And I get you got

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Speaker 1: a ton of money. I think he got like five

621
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: he got like twenty plus million dollars to sign there.

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: I've never had anyone offered me twenty million dollars. I

623
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: would imagine the good majority of people listening have not either.

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00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: I'm signed in that contract. I get it, But you

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00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: hit your wagon. Adam Gaze, Adam freaking Gaze, who looks

626
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: lost right now, who has a defensive coordinator that he

627
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: cannot stand. They do not talk. They do not talk.

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00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: I've heard that from multiple reliable sources. They do not speak.

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00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: But to lose with the Dolphins, who if anyone's been

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00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: paying attention, and they were just on Monday Night football

631
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: against the Steelers. If you just watch the bits and

632
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: pieces of the last couple of weeks, they're playing really hard.

633
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: Now they don't have much talent, but they their effort level.

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00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: Just watching bits and pieces on the red zone. Somehow

635
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: that game got a lot of pub on the red zone.

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00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: Just outplay the Jets. They just tried harder. That's just

637
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Speaker 1: an underrated aspect of professional sports, is just effort. Like, yeah,

638
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: if you've got Lebron James or you got Peyton Manning,

639
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna win more games. But if most teams are

640
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: relatively equal, if you just try harder than the other team,

641
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in position potentially to win the game.

642
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: They don't even try hard. They clearly don't really like

643
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: this guy. And then Joe Douglas and his actions have

644
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: kind of fractured a locker room. So you're already pretty

645
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: shitty now, no one trust or coach or you're a

646
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: gentleman at you're and the guy that you traded up

647
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: from six to three, remember when you traded with the

648
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: Colts and gave I think three second round picks is

649
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: in shambles. So the biggest red fag flag on the franchise. Meanwhile,

650
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has got Carson playing really high despite missing

651
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of injured guys all season long and struggling

652
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: to run the ball and their defense not being very good,

653
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: and he's winning with Matt Moore, and you're ruining Sam Donald.

654
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: And I get Sam Donald has some floss. He's he's,

655
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: you know, a little inclined to turn the ball over.

656
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: But that's what they hired you to do. Fix him.

657
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: And you're not only fixing him, he's just he's been

658
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: he's seeing ghosts. I mean, he's in shambles right now.

659
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: And I like the Browns. The Jets aren't ever gonna change.

660
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: The Browns aren't ever gonna change. There's a reason the

661
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: Eagles always win. There's a reason the Chiefs go to

662
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. There's a reason the Ravens of

663
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers are a locked playoff team between the two

664
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: of them every single year. And the Jets and the

665
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: Browns just suck and this year. If you like football,

666
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: if you like management, if you're just fascinated by all

667
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: this stuff, you should just take notes on how to

668
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 1: avoid disaster and just read everything possible about the Jets

669
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: and the Browns because they've put on a clinic on

670
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: how to stay shitty in the NFL. Okay, do I

671
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: need to uh eat a little crow with John Gruden?

672
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: Because I I thought he was a bottom five head

673
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: coach last year. In early on this season, I thought

674
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: it was a little out of control with the way

675
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: everything was handled last year. But I gotta give him

676
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: credit there four and four and what John Gruden was

677
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: brought in to do, which was run the offense and

678
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: save Derek Carr first and foremost, he's done. So I

679
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: thought we'd do a little the good and the bad

680
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: with John Gruten because I think he's one of the

681
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: more polarizing guys in the league. He's clearly one of

682
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: the most famous guys in the league. And you know,

683
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: I originally started on like, I think he's gonna be

684
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: a good head coach, and then that first year he

685
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: had all much power in the way everything handled with

686
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: Reggie mackenzie. They gave him too much power. And it

687
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: was until he got Mike Mayock around that there was

688
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: And I still don't think my actually pull on the trigger.

689
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: But at least it's a guy that he respects and

690
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: will listen to. It can balance him out. But you

691
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: can't dispute that Derek Carr is having arguably the best

692
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: season of his career, and he lost Antonio Brown the

693
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: week before the season. He's missed Terrell Williams, his basically,

694
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: which was supposed to be his number two wide receivers

695
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: now his number one wide receiver. Who's missed some games,

696
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: have been banged up. He's played with Hunter Renfro that

697
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: looks like me or you. Darren Waller was addicted to

698
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: drugs like a year ago, who's been incredible, and Josh

699
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: Jacobs a rookie and the offense is awesome. So the

700
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: good with John Gruden is he can coach offense and

701
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: he clearly can motivate the guys like they are playing

702
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: very very hard. And one thing that was a knock

703
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: on Gruden when he was in Tampa, uh because he

704
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 1: was an asshole. People didn't like him. The players did

705
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: not like him. Now maybe it's just they have a

706
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: young team, they have a lot of influential players. It

707
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: seems like all these guys really like him. They really

708
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: enjoy him now part of it probably more now than ever.

709
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: If you're part of the Raiders, you know he likes you.

710
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: So if you're like, well, this guy's the boss, I

711
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: might as well play hard for him. Because as I

712
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: talked about with the Jets or even the Browns, like

713
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: just because you're in the NFL, doesn't some lock that

714
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna play hard. So John Gruden working with Derek

715
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: Carr figuring out how to get the most of them,

716
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: drafting a running back in the first round, which I

717
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: still am opposed to because I do think you could

718
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: have got Josh Jacobs in the second round. But that's

719
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: nit picking. So I'm tipping my hat to him. He's

720
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: four and four, and I really think the Raiders have

721
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 1: been one of the revelations of the league. I thought

722
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: they were gonna be a three or four win team,

723
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: especially mainly when Antonio Brown backed out. It's like they

724
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: are screwed. And then they start, you know, they play

725
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, they get boat race, and they play the

726
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: Vikings and looks really ugly, and they've come back. They Colts,

727
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: the Bears that even the Packers. That score is not

728
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: addicative of the game because Derek fumbled it into the

729
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: end zone. They they've been really good this year. They

730
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: really really have. Offensively, they've been dynamic, and that is

731
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: Gruden's baby. He's the head coach slash play caller. So

732
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: if the offense is good and the quarterback is good,

733
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: who you have under contract long term. Gruden's been good.

734
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: Now the bad is that he still is in charge

735
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: of all the personnelity even though Mayock's the GM. I

736
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: think Mayock has influence, but Gruden has to sign off

737
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: on it. That's just the reality of the contract. No

738
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: different like San Francisco John Lynch is running the personnel department.

739
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: If you want to acquire a player, Kyle Shanahan has

740
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: to sign off on it. It's just the way the

741
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: league works. You got a power structure and Gruden's at

742
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: the top. This team is really kind of a Khalil

743
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: Mack away from probably being above five hundred and us

744
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: talking about as being a playoff team. If they would

745
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: have had a legit pass rusher against DeShawn Watson, they

746
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: win that game in Houston. Now you can say, well

747
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: they got rid of clear back and led him to

748
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. True, but they also had uh A bar Cooper.

749
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: They got him pick twenty seven. That if they had

750
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: not had picked twenty four and they still had clear Mack,

751
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: they could have draft Josh Jacobs at pick seven. But

752
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: that's also nitpicking. Their defensive roster is atrocious, It is awful.

753
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I think I talked to people in the league. They

754
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: think they have the worst defensive line on paper in

755
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: the league, their secondary is really bad. I mean, Matt Stafford,

756
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: every quarterback they play, and they play Thursday night against Rivers,

757
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: who's kind of humming. They do not match up well.

758
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: If you pass the ball, if you're playing a Chase Daniel,

759
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: if they're playing a you know, Mr Bisky, if they're

760
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: playing a even a Jacoby, they got a shot. But

761
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: when they play a Aaron Rodgers or a Stafford, it's

762
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: hold onto your ass. And luckily yesterday they were able

763
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: to score enough because the Lions defense isn't very good.

764
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: But their defense is bad. And you know, I just

765
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: wonder with Gruden. They missed on Cleveland Farrell really really badly,

766
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: and if they would have hit on that pick I

767
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: a guy that we were all talking about in Josh

768
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: Allen that was clearly the second best pass rushing prospect

769
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: in the draft behind Nick Bosa. Now you could argue

770
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: three or four system in Kentucky, stand up guy. That's

771
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,479
Speaker 1: kind of what they're doing in Jacksonville. Standing up I.

772
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: I do think you can teach guys to do both.

773
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: Put your hand in the ground, be a four three

774
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: defensive end. Because Cleveland Farrell, according to just about every

775
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: metric and the eye test is one of the worst

776
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: players in the NFL. And the Raiders struggle to get pressure.

777
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: If they would have Josh Allen, that would help them

778
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: mentally and they would legitimately be a playoff team because

779
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: I think you watched them. Their offense is a playoff offense.

780
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: John Gruden has playoff game plans now and anytime. I

781
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: just think this probably works in any sport. Once you

782
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: taste a little success and start winning got you get

783
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: addict into winning, Like I start realizing we can do this.

784
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: You don't need to be the Patriots to just be

785
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 1: obsessed with winning. You can be a five hundred team

786
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: and be a team that's eight and eight, nine and seven,

787
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: that probably has five win talent. But because you taste it,

788
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: because you believe in your coaching staff, because you're just

789
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: all in, it works. And I think that you know

790
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: right now the good outweighs the bad with Gruden that

791
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: they're even overcoming him missing pretty pretty bad on that

792
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick, even the seven pick. I like Jonathan Abram,

793
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: I love everything about his style of football. But when

794
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: you draft a box safety in the first round in

795
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. It's difficult to play, and the reason

796
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: he's on injured reserve it was because he destroyed a

797
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: guy on the on Monday Night Football to open the season.

798
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: And that's just the way he plays. And when you

799
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: destroy a guy sometimes you're shoulder tears. And you know,

800
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Raider fan or just someone

801
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: that was down, you know that was unsure about Gruden.

802
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: I think he's proven a lot this season that his

803
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: number one attribute is the thing you need the most,

804
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: and that's colin place and coaching quarterbacks. The defense. I

805
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know how he fixed that because the one

806
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: time he's had a good defense he inherited the Tampa

807
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers roster and he had Monty kivin. Now. I

808
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: I have a hard time judging Paul gun through their

809
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I'd always heard really good things. I can't

810
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: judge you when the players are the players that he's

811
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: playing with because they're not very good. But I I

812
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: think overall, uh, Jon Gruden has had a very very

813
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: impressive first aid games with the two thousand nineteen season. Okay,

814
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: let's uh let's dive into something that hit me yesterday.

815
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: Daylight savings time. So I, you know, I didn't go

816
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: out or anything Saturday night. I was just naturally kind

817
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: of open, Like six thirty in the morning on Sunday morning.

818
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: First thing I do because I'm saying it's sad, you know,

819
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: social media, annial life. Check my phone and I, oh, yeah,

820
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: there's a six thirty am game, and luckily it's broadcasting.

821
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: I just watched the thing on my phone. No, no

822
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: television in my room. I make up four with multiple

823
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: televisions in my living room, and I flip it on

824
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: my phone and I'm watching the six thirty am game.

825
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: I had breakfast, keep watching the game. It was awesome.

826
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: You just watched the games up until the ten am

827
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: games start, and it kind of hit me over the

828
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours, I'm like, I like this, and

829
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: I tweeted it out during Sunday. We should do this

830
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: every week, And then I realized we kind of can't.

831
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars are in a market that's not even

832
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: in the top forty in America. It's one of the

833
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: smallest markets in the NFL. Right, actually a couple of

834
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: spots after Vegas. But I think we all admit Vegas

835
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: is a much more lucrative proposition than Jacksonville when it

836
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: comes to corporate money, and it's the whole you know,

837
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: all the bells and whistles of the city. Why not

838
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: just move the Jacksonville Jaguars in London and play eight

839
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: six thirty Am game which are nighttime games for them

840
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: a year. So out of your seventeen weeks, eight of

841
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: them will be six thirty am kickoffs, and then you

842
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: can still supply you supplement it with you know, three

843
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: or four extra games, so you basically you could get

844
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 1: twelve six thirty am games a year. Tell me that's

845
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: not a genius business proposition. So you will have football games,

846
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 1: not pregame shows or post game shows. I'm talking games

847
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: that we bet on, that we play fantasy football on,

848
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: that we just watch from six thirty in the morning

849
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: Pacific Standard time, all the way up till usually the

850
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: Sunday night game ends for me around eight fifteen. If

851
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: you're on the East coast, t even easier to consume.

852
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: It starts at nine thirty in the morning up until

853
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: the end of the NBC game, which is late. But

854
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: I do think you can still send teams over there.

855
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: I've never been to London, so don't I know. I

856
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: was reading Albert Brier wrote in the Monday Morning Quarterback.

857
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: The two games that they had at Tottenham's Stadium, both

858
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: of them sold out in under forty five minutes. There

859
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: is a mark. It actually looks pretty good because the

860
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: night game was the first thing in the morning. It

861
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: looks pretty cool. The Jacksonville Jaguars, they don't want to

862
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: be in Jacksonville anymore now. The players don't mind it

863
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: because of taxes and I don't know how the exchange

864
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: rate and all that stuff. It's clearly a little complicated,

865
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: but they're basically doing it now. However, they tax them

866
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: when they go play over there for the games. Anyway,

867
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: Jacksonville shot Khan he'd move over there and heartbeat. Just

868
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: send the team there and then you can still have

869
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: games like when they're on the road when Jacksonville is

870
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: playing the Colts or Houston or whatever. You know, it's

871
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: not that far in a flight. It's obviously a lot

872
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: farther than it would be staying in Jacksonville. But I

873
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: do think it's doable, and I also think it would

874
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: be pretty cool just because of the inventory you'd get

875
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday mornings, you would have a game now with

876
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 1: Fox and CBS all that, you know, networks with pregame

877
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: shows love that. Probably not so, I I get it's

878
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 1: a little complicated. I don't think it's black and white.

879
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: But to me, it seems like a no brainer because

880
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: the most powerful property of anything is the actual games.

881
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: You put on NFL games on television, and people consume

882
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: it at historic rates. So why not just moving Jacksonville

883
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 1: Jaguars in London? You get eight games a year. You

884
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: could send four other random games, you know, fource three

885
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: or four teams to give up home games. Play it there.

886
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 1: You basically the majority of your season. Get a Sunday

887
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: start to finish all day of just games because right

888
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: now we've got three windows, right the ten am to

889
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: one am, one pm, one pm to four thirty pm,

890
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: and then the night game five thirty. Then you got

891
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: Monday night. Now we'd have Thursday, we'd have all day Sunday,

892
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: and then we would have Monday night. Talk about just

893
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: twelve plus weeks of just football frenzy. I tell me,

894
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 1: that's stupid. Tweet at me, DM me, because I really

895
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: think it's genius. I really do. And when I read

896
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: Albert Brier say that they both sold both these games

897
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: out in forty five minutes. They're just events. Think of

898
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: what people love doing now more than anything. It's just

899
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: a need event to go do. Whether it's a beer fest,

900
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: whether it's a comedy show, whether it's a concert, whether

901
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: it's a money night football game. People humans just like

902
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: going to things, and especially when they're new. It's like

903
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: you bring the ep L, you bring Manchester United and

904
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: they played. I don't pretend to be some soccer guy,

905
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: but Manchester United verse Man City and you put them

906
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: at Stan Cronky's New Palace or Levi Stadium, or put

907
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: them in Philly, that thing would sell out in an hour.

908
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 1: It's no different than putting American football over overseas. People

909
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: like it. You just give people events. And now the

910
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 1: popularity and the fame of this league is so big.

911
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: People know about it. People will go even if they

912
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: don't really know what the rules are. If you told me,

913
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: you know. It happens a lot with soccer. I think

914
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: in America, though it's a little different. Soccer is just

915
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: big in America to clearly, American football is not big

916
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: in London, but but I think it could work because

917
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: I think Jacksonville right now is a wasted market in

918
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: the NFL isn't into wasting anything, and I think there's

919
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: probably a ton of money over there, and they could

920
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: have a little quote unquote international flavor with really just

921
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: having one team being international. It's no brainer to me. Okay,

922
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: let's hit on a couple other things, just some notes

923
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: I jotted down of just things, players, whatever that stood

924
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: out to me. One DK metcalf is just a good player.

925
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: Whenever I watched Seattle fourteen makes place and we all

926
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: made fun of him for the picture he looked like

927
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger, myself included. But he's really good, you know.

928
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 1: And I think the knock on him was they could

929
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: only run straight. And I remember when he ran really

930
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: fast to the combine. I texted a bunch of people

931
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: in the league. I'm like, it's gonna go in the

932
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: first round. And when people are sitting at the combine

933
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, I wouldn't discount it, And then

934
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: I think, you go back, you you nitpicked the tape.

935
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 1: He had had been injured, but he's in a great spot.

936
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's a D ball pass catcher. I mean

937
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: that's his go to route, just running the go route

938
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: or just anything deep breaking, goes posts and he makes place.

939
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: I mean he he high points the ball at least.

940
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't watched every one of his targets,

941
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: but whenever I'm watching them, he makes catches when it's

942
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: thrown in his vicinity, so that they are they're much

943
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: more potent on offense because they have him in the

944
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: fold to go along with lock It, and they're study

945
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: running back. They missed. We can't forget they had a

946
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: swing and a miss two years ago with Roshande Penny

947
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: and I like Penny a lot coming out of the draft,

948
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: but he's not good. And I know John Clayton the

949
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: other night was tweeting that they they ended up not

950
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: trading him. They thought about trading him to keep a

951
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: one two punch. It's like John, they don't have a

952
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: one two punch. They have a one punch and they're

953
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: one punch. Chris Carson is like one of my favorite

954
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: players in the league. If you like physical football, you're

955
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: gonna like Chris Carson. But Tyler Lockett is a little

956
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: limited in the sense that he needs a little help.

957
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: You want him on your team is like a two

958
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: slash three and they don't really have a true one.

959
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,240
Speaker 1: It probably is more lock it. But you put Lockett

960
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: with this guy and Jern Brown, imagine that. You know,

961
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: if Disley had got it hurt. We got a big

962
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: game Monday night, which as of right now, I'm scheduled

963
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: to be an attendance Seattle Niners a week from today

964
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: as of them recording this. The Chargers, man there, they

965
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: are just never dead. I'm gonna chock up the game

966
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: for the Packers. They just had a clunker. You know,

967
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: you get you can go twelve and four, which means

968
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna win your division in the majority of

969
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: years and divisions, and you're gonna lose a couple of

970
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: games where everyone thinks you suck, like you get to

971
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: lose some games in the NFL. You look, this is

972
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: not college football now. I get it look bad. And

973
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: it was in Carson where it's basically a home stadium,

974
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: especially for a team like the Packers. But the Chargers

975
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: kicked the crap out of them. They dominated the ground

976
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: game with Eckler and uh and Melvin Gordon. Uh Verse

977
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 1: was really good. Mike Williams looks like a good player

978
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: and Boaston Ingram can take over a game. That the

979
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: one thing about the Chargers, you gotta give him their due.

980
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: When they're on, they have the greatest probably pendulum of

981
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: their high end and their low end. Like you can

982
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: watch him on a given week and he'd be like,

983
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: that's a top five team in football. And you can

984
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: also watch him the next week and go, that's a

985
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: bottom five team in the NFL. They're they're just a

986
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: bizarre operation. But that was an old school lass kicking

987
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: and we got Thursday night football Raiders Chargers. That's pretty

988
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: good game. Uh give me Rivers at the Colisseum for

989
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: the last time. I'm in um is minshu Mania dead.

990
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 1: It might be he was got up early for that game,

991
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: watched a lot of it as I talked about I

992
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: think the Jaguay should move to London. He didn't look

993
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: very good. Uh, he looked awful. Actually, he was just bad. Now,

994
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: he's had a couple of clunkers. Really this season. He's

995
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: had some moments, and even in the games where he's

996
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: had some moments, they haven't necessarily been like sixty five

997
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: sevent completion percentage. He's had a lot of fifteen for

998
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: thirty ones. I like him, I'm rooting for him. I

999
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: enjoy watching him. But I think it's safe to say

1000
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: that Nick Foles, when healthy, will start. Trabisky just keeps

1001
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: getting shittier. I don't really know how it's possible, but

1002
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: every time I watched Mitch, I think the stat line

1003
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: after the first half he had one passing yard. I mean,

1004
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: he's just airmailing guy after guy after guy. He looks

1005
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 1: clueless out there now. Because Chase Daniels are backup quarterback,

1006
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: It's not like you haven't really have a pivot, like

1007
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: what are your other options? I guess you just kind

1008
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: of see what you got. I know Jay Glazier, I

1009
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: saw him saying maybe to Colin or on a pregame show,

1010
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: but I do agree with him. When you trade up

1011
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: for this guy, you just gotta play him this entire season,

1012
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: so you know at the end of the year when

1013
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: you cut him. And I had someone in the NFL

1014
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: that has worked with Ryan Pace before that told me

1015
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: he'd be shocked if he cuts him. And I don't

1016
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: see how you cannot cut him, how you're gonna have

1017
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: miss Robisky as your backup. But I get that, you

1018
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: know It's not abnormal for a guy that drafts a

1019
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: player to then not want to cut him even after

1020
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: he's kind of proven that he's not any good and

1021
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: clearly at the money he makes because he was a

1022
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: second overall pick, he's not going to be a tradeable player.

1023
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: Bill's defense is really good. I think it's safe to

1024
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: call them. I'll still use the word borderline, but a

1025
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: borderline playoff lock that they're gonna get one of the

1026
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: two wild card spots. I think we know pretty clearly

1027
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: that it's the Patriots, the Chiefs, the Ravens, and that

1028
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: putting this in any order yet, and the Colts or

1029
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 1: the Texans. One of those two teams more than likely

1030
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: that other culture of the Texans team, depending on you know,

1031
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: how long Jacoby is out, uh, if you know, obviously,

1032
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: if DeShawn were to get hurt. But I think one

1033
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 1: of those two teams is either gonna win the division

1034
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: and make the wild card, and the Bills all probably

1035
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: the other wild card. Now, depending on who wins this

1036
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, that team would technically still be alive.

1037
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: You probably have a little more faith in the Chargers,

1038
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: just given that they've been there, done at before then

1039
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: the Raiders, given that their defense is just atrocious, but

1040
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 1: the Bill's defense is gonna carry them to tell ten wins.

1041
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: Now it helps you play in the NFC East, the

1042
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: Dolphins and the Jets are just atrocious. Now the Dolphins

1043
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: credit where credit is do they do play hard? The

1044
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: Broncos are just not that bad. They're just not We

1045
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 1: talked about him earlier with the Broncos or I mean

1046
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns, Fangio has not been just some

1047
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: fish out of water. And as you see with the Bears,

1048
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: they miss him, and they miss him badly. Like the

1049
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: the gap between Vic Fangio to Chuck Pagano. Chuck Boganno

1050
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: a nice guy. I don't know if he's super dynamic.

1051
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: You know that there's a big gap when you go

1052
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: from James Harden to your backup to guard. That's kind

1053
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: of what it feels like to Vick Fangio. He's the

1054
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: best in the business as a defensive coordinator. Chuck Pogano again,

1055
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: solid guy. He got taken to the cleaners in must

1056
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: situations with Doug Peterson. Doug knew everything he was gonna

1057
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: do and every play call he was hitting when Chuck

1058
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: just like that doesn't happen against vic now when he's

1059
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. And I think you watched the Broncos.

1060
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: They've had some weird stuff happened there on already on

1061
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: some random quarterback again they draft in the second round,

1062
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: has been injured the entire season. Hopefully you can come

1063
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: back and you get some reps out of him to

1064
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: end the season. But you know they're gonna go five

1065
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: and eleven, but it's not gonna be a super embarrassing

1066
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: five and eleven. Uh, Minnesota. You know, I thought the

1067
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs played really well, so I don't think that's necessarily

1068
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 1: a bad loss. Also, it's on the road. I think

1069
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: it's more impressive victory for the Chiefs than it is

1070
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: a bad loss. You know, Cousins was a little hit

1071
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: or miss in that game. I think there are some

1072
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: question marks with the Vikings secondary you can tell. I

1073
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: mean they I don't know if they rushed him back.

1074
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: But anytime you come back off a hamstring, it's one

1075
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: thing in practice because you're just kind of practicing. It's

1076
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: just for two straight hours you're moving. In a football game,

1077
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: you warm up, you go to the locker room, you

1078
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: come out, you kick off, even if you start on offense,

1079
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: then you're on on the field or off the field

1080
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: for defense, and there's just a lot of time in

1081
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: between when you're on the field and when you're not.

1082
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: It's why I think a lot of guys, you know,

1083
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: Dr middlecoff here, why you reaggravate the hamstring and their

1084
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: offense is dramatically more dynamic when you have feeling and

1085
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: digs and the tight ends and cooks and and cook

1086
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: You could argue that that offense win healthy, if Cousins

1087
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: is just solid, is as good as it gets in

1088
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: the league. Now, there are better quarterbacks in the NFL,

1089
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: but personnel skill wise, that's pretty freaking good. Uh. Deshaun

1090
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 1: Watson was brilliant again. His stats weren't as crazy this week,

1091
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: just twenty eight, but just the eye test, how in

1092
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: control he is, how funny is to watch. He's one

1093
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the league right now. McCaffrey

1094
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: another five on the ground, another two touchdowns running, another

1095
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: big run, another thirty forty in the air, and another

1096
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: touchdown catching the ball. Just a you know, an all

1097
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: world offensive player, and the Panthers just you know, refuse

1098
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,280
Speaker 1: to die. And he's he's really to me the reason.

1099
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of teams their quarterback carries them.

1100
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: For the Panthers, it's kick Lee and McCaffrey and kick Ley.

1101
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: Clearly his first ballot Hall of Famer one day. I

1102
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: think McCaffrey, if he can stay healthy for the next

1103
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: five or six years, is going to just have like

1104
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: a Ladinian Thomason type run here of just statistics because

1105
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: teams know they're going to them. Teams know they're gonna

1106
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: hand on the ball, teams know they're gonna run screens

1107
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: for him, and it doesn't matter. He's unstoppable. Okay, let's

1108
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 1: get to the Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff Instagram handle.

1109
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: Slide up in those d MS mail back thoughts on

1110
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: mac trade. If the Bears pick ends up in the

1111
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: top eight, they have a tough finish, it could easily

1112
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: win five games. Max Well, they play the Lions this week.

1113
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: I would say this, if the Raiders missed the playoffs again,

1114
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: and we'll have a better feel after Thursday night's game. Uh,

1115
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: they would be four and five, you know, and they

1116
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: would have a probably end up at like seven and nine.

1117
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: They would miss the playoffs the first two years and

1118
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: while the Bears missed the playoffs this year, they did

1119
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and when the division last year with

1120
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. So in two years, the Bears have one

1121
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: division title and they have Khalil Mack. The Raiders have

1122
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: nothing they have. They're like their fans on Twitter never

1123
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: stopped leaving me alone because they think four and four

1124
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,479
Speaker 1: is basically like eight. No, it's actually four and four

1125
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: and you're like the eighth place team. Now when you're

1126
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: everyone shipping on you all offseason, including myself, I get

1127
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: you know you're pumping yourself up, but I think it's

1128
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: fair to say when you watch the Raiders, which I do,

1129
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: they're basically a Khalil Mack away from being good. So

1130
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: how do you find the pass rusher? They're gonna need

1131
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: to find a pass rusher. They could have kept Khalil

1132
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: Mack and you know, and still have the number four

1133
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: overall pick potentially because they would have been really bad

1134
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: last year. They still would have had the second because

1135
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: they could have traded Amri too. They could have got

1136
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. They still would have had cap space. But

1137
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 1: I would say right now, the Bears, just last year alone,

1138
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: they still have Cleio mac and they won the division.

1139
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: So now if the Raiders can make the playoffs the

1140
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: next couple of years with all these young players and

1141
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, who right now they have for Cleil mac

1142
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: and is the offensive rookie of the year. So if

1143
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: he can rattle off a three or four year stretch

1144
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: of plan like this and the Raiders can make the

1145
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: playoffs a couple of times. Let's not forget the Raiders

1146
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs one time since two thousand two.

1147
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: Let me repeat one time since two thousand two. Middlecoff

1148
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: mail back at this point, why don't the Bears just

1149
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 1: use Mitch as a running back. He's athletic and a

1150
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: good runner and clearly can't throw, and they don't have

1151
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: anything to lose The argument against using quarterbacks to run

1152
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: as they get hurt, but who cares. They're going to

1153
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: move forward with Mitch anyway. Maybe him running a bit

1154
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: could open up some easy throws. I would agree that

1155
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: they just need to They need to stop asking him

1156
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: to throw it all the time. He's just not capable.

1157
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: He he's not accurate enough, he's just not good enough.

1158
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: He's just not a good player. It's really it's really

1159
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: just that simple, he's just not very good. Is there

1160
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: any chance that Bill acquired some New to serve as

1161
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: a running quarterback for the defense to practice their preparation

1162
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: for Lamar Jackson. Bill could see the Ravens as a

1163
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: worthy adversary in the a f C playoff matchup implications,

1164
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: and so New can sling it and took a lot

1165
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: of snaps at quarterback at Rutgers and would serve as

1166
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: Lamar against the first team defense. I thought this could

1167
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: be additional reason Bill acquired him ahead, other than needing

1168
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: help at wide receiver. That's not a crazy thought, but

1169
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: I'd say the ultimate reason you give up a second

1170
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: rounder because I could pull I could find, you know,

1171
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: some guy on the street that's an elite athlete to

1172
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: do that. I just signed him like practice squad. I

1173
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: I think they they used a second round pick for

1174
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: some New simply to catch touchdowns and catch first downs. Now,

1175
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: if he does that too at practice, then that's an

1176
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: added bone, which you know, if they play at each

1177
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: other again in the in the playoffs, which is very

1178
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: possible because it's pretty clear that the final four in

1179
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: the a f C is gonna be case Casey New

1180
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: England Baltimore and you know, probably Houston or Indie so

1181
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: they could easily see him again. I've been listening to

1182
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: you since the beginning. I love the podcasts. Considering the

1183
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: Jets start to the season and the loss this week

1184
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: to Miami, would you consider firing Adam Gaze? It seems

1185
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,439
Speaker 1: like only bad franchises fired their coach after a few

1186
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: seasons or one season. I either Browns and the Raiders. Yeah,

1187
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: I mean, ideally, you do not want to do that

1188
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: because if you fire Adam Gaze, now the good thing

1189
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 1: is you have Joe Douglas and you get to to

1190
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: start from scratch. Now, luckily, these NFL teams are making

1191
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: so much money, firing these guys and paying them to

1192
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: go away is not the problem. I think optically it

1193
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: looks pretty terrible, but you you could argue, is optically

1194
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: going too and fourteen and getting getting your ass kick,

1195
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: because that's what they got. They didn't just blues. They

1196
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: got the butts kicked by the Dolphins, and they've been horrendous.

1197
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: You know, the Monday Night game Now, obviously Donald head Mono,

1198
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: but the Cowboy game for the Jets might go down

1199
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: as one of the most bizarre experiences that we'll ever

1200
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: see on the football field. How did they beat the

1201
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: Cowboys like that? I I don't I don't get it.

1202
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 1: So I guess long story short, I would not fire

1203
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: him unless I just thought he was a malcontent, bad person,

1204
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: because you hired him because you thought he was a

1205
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: good coach. And I've always thought he was a good coach.

1206
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: But I'm having second thoughts this year because they are

1207
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: debaucle halfway through the season. Wanted to check in on

1208
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the m v P race. I see

1209
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: it as a four man race between Russ, DeShawn Lamar,

1210
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: and McCaffrey. I would agree if I had to rank

1211
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: them right now. Listen that maybe I'm biased because this

1212
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: guy has become my favorite player in the league. And

1213
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: I was talking to a buddy in the league who's like,

1214
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: you know what, I kind of missed on Deshaun Watson.

1215
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: I didn't think he could pass it well enough. And

1216
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: I say, well, if you watch he's not super crispasser.

1217
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: He benefits and he benefited from this in Clemson to

1218
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: having incredible jump ball and like huge catching radius wide receivers.

1219
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: Remember Clemson, he had Mike Williams and he could throw

1220
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: it to him and he just make crazy plays. Well,

1221
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: what does he have in the NFL? He has the

1222
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: guy with by far the best radius in the league

1223
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: and and easily the best contest catch the guy because

1224
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: he's not a Blazer in DeAndre Hopkins, so he benefits

1225
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: from that. But the thing to Shawn has and Russ

1226
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: has this too. His instincts are elite, his quarterback instincts,

1227
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: so his scramble to keep a play alive, then to

1228
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: throw and hit a wide receiver, his ability to do

1229
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: stuff like that is second to none. And if you're

1230
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:49,439
Speaker 1: an instinctual player and he's pretty accurate and is he's

1231
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: such an elite competitor, Uh, he might get my vote,

1232
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: but I'm I do have a soft spot for like

1233
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: not a career record, but Russ Wilson went, his career

1234
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: is over. He deserves to have an MVP on his resume.

1235
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: And this is best season ever. I'm gonna be at

1236
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: the game when they play the Forts here next Monday night.

1237
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: If he were to win that game, or win some

1238
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 1: of these games down the stretch and they go eleven

1239
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: and five, twelve and four, I'd have no problem if

1240
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: you told me, right, now Russell Deshaun Watson won it.

1241
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: It wouldn't bother me at all. I'd probably, as of today,

1242
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: i'd vote for Deshaun Watson. But I could also easily

1243
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: check the box for Russ and I go back and

1244
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: forth week to week. Uh, I don't know. Russ just

1245
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: had five touchdowns. I would have probably McCaffrey third and

1246
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: Lamar fourth, and that's not you know, Lamar has been fantastic.

1247
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: I think McCaffrey has carried the Panthers. I mean they're

1248
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: five and three playing with Kyle freaking Allen and McCaffrey's like,

1249
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: no big deal. I'll give you a hundred fifty on

1250
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: the ground, another fifty in the air, and three touchdowns

1251
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: a game. It's a it's a good group right now,

1252
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: it really is. So i'd probably go, as of today

1253
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: the slightest of edge to Shawn Watson with Russ right there,

1254
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: and I would say, on a given weekday go back

1255
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: and forth and then McCaffrey and Lamar right under. But

1256
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: McCaffrey has like a legit, I mean a legit argument

1257
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: for this thing, you know, and it's rare for a

1258
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: running back. Remember the one year and it makes way

1259
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: more sense now when he's like, yeah, I ran for

1260
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 1: two thousand yards, I carried my team into the playoffs. Well,

1261
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: who's your quarterback? And Adrian Peterson looks back at you

1262
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: and goes Christian Ponder. You're like, oh, I get how

1263
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: you won the m v P. You know, and I

1264
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: think McCaffrey if they were to make the playoffs over Seattle.

1265
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Speaker 1: Let's say that, Let's say the Panthers go ten and four,

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Speaker 1: or I mean not ten four, that that would be

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Speaker 1: four teen games, ten and six in Seattle goes ten

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Speaker 1: and six, but they have the tiebreaker, however, and McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: has a purpose yards and twenty five touchdowns, right, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't argue with you voting for him. So it's a

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Speaker 1: loaded it's a loaded group. Was that Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: even real question? I must be dreaming that the Ravens

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Speaker 1: end of the past perfect season. That being said, do

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Speaker 1: you think a coach like Bill would ever lose to

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Speaker 1: a team on purpose to get the attention on on

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Speaker 1: his team. I can think of a few reasons as

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Speaker 1: to why this could be beneficial to the Paths because

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Speaker 1: the pressure of a perfect season is off them. Everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to blow Lamar now appreciate the input. God bless.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he blows the game on purpose. But

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Speaker 1: once he's losing the game, like late in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarridor and it's kind of over, or once he gets

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Speaker 1: to a situation, he might stop calling certain plays. I

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01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: could definitely see some big picture in that, because he

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Speaker 1: only he had no losses. He's still gonna rattle off

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Speaker 1: a bunch of wins and more than likely he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get the number one seed no matter what. But you know,

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Speaker 1: in the heat of the moment, he's trying to win

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Speaker 1: the game. Now, I do think he's very careful. They

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Speaker 1: used they use a fake play yesterday on offense and

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Speaker 1: they run a double pass, yeah, and then Brady hit

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Speaker 1: the check down. So I I think they're coaching to win.

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Speaker 1: I think they're so so well coached in New England

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Speaker 1: that he can always bring up new wrinkles. Really, the

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Speaker 1: bottom line is Lamar just made some plays that even

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Speaker 1: if you have the five Bears defense, you just might

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Speaker 1: have lost to. Sometimes great players make plays and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do. I I think sometimes we overthink

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Speaker 1: it because it's like Lamar Jackson is just like this

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Speaker 1: freak athlete. What are you gonna do? He's he's moving

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Speaker 1: around back there like Barry Sanders, Like I mean, I

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Speaker 1: Mike Singletary, Ray Lewis, Ed Reid and Patrick Willis could

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01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: be chasing him and he might make them all miss

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Speaker 1: He's just that special question for the pod. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think all of a sudden there was a shortage

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Speaker 1: of reliable kickers? Is it really because they move the

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Speaker 1: extra point back? I do think that definitely brings into

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01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: play a lot more mrs because I think we see

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Speaker 1: it feels like, I know, we missed an extra point

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Speaker 1: tonight on Monday night. You know, I don't have the

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Speaker 1: stats in front of me, but it feels like almost

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Speaker 1: a missed extra point a game. Maybe maybe a little

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Speaker 1: less than that, like point seven five misses a game.

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Speaker 1: So I it's a lot of misses throughout the league.

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Speaker 1: If you're just sitting there watching football on Sunday, where

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Speaker 1: that you never missed the extra point. And that's why Belichick, remember,

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Speaker 1: fought to get it moved back because he said, what's

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Speaker 1: the point of this, why don't you just give an

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Speaker 1: automatic one? Because when you made him kick the field

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Speaker 1: goal at the two yard line, wasn't it Like I

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Speaker 1: think it was like almost they were going to hit

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Speaker 1: the extra point. So when you move it back, what

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Speaker 1: is it now? Thirty five yard field goal? There was

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Speaker 1: just especially late in the game and a tie game,

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Speaker 1: or there is some tangible pressure on that. It's no

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Speaker 1: longer a quote unquote ship shot. As the weather changes

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Speaker 1: in some of these places, and Lambeau and Soldier Field

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01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia and Washington and New York, they get a

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Speaker 1: little dice here. So yeah, I think it's We've probably

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Speaker 1: never had more talented kicker, just in terms of guys

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Speaker 1: with legs, strength and stuff. But it's probably the mental

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Speaker 1: focus it takes. Just you know, if any of you

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01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: guys golf, you know when I give you a tap in,

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Speaker 1: if I'm playing you in match play and you have

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Speaker 1: like a two footer and I go, it's a good

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Speaker 1: woman to say it's good. But if all your tap

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Speaker 1: ins are seven and a half feet, I'm not giving

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01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: you any of those putts. Even if you're the best

1339
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: putter in the world, there's still some nerves going into

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Speaker 1: the putt, right. It's no different with the field goal kick.

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Speaker 1: I bet if you just took good Kowski or Tucker

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Speaker 1: or McManus or any of the top kickers just to

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Speaker 1: the practice field and line them up to where the

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Speaker 1: extra point is now thirty five yards or thirty seven

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Speaker 1: yards or whatever the hell it is. They would hit

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Speaker 1: that just over and over with ease. But the game

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Speaker 1: situation is a little more intense, you know. It's just

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Speaker 1: it's just an intense situation, especially when the point is

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Speaker 1: factoring in, Like, hey, this is the tie of the game.

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Speaker 1: This is to take the lead, this is to get

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Speaker 1: us within the eight points. Whatever the game situation is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you feel it as a fan just watching

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Speaker 1: it on your couch. Uh. And you know, I've I've

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Speaker 1: seen some kickers missive kicks in my life, and uh,

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01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: it's just a weird position. So yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: think the extra point is I guess that's a long

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01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: winded way of saying it. I think it's as simple

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Speaker 1: as the extra point. Getting moved back is screwed up.

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Speaker 1: A lot of kickers. Appreciate everyone listening. Again the Carson

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Speaker 1: Palmer interview last week. If you haven't listened, go check

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Speaker 1: it out. It was really good. And uh, I guess

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Speaker 1: I'll see after Thursday night football. We got a little

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Speaker 1: Raiders coming down the home stretch of their time in

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Speaker 1: Oakland at the Colisseum versus the Chargers. Who are you know?

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Speaker 1: Both teams are playing pretty well right now, pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: fired up for that game. Share this podcast with your friends.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone listening, and uh, let's just keep enjoying

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Speaker 1: the football season. Tooculator so